half-cocked - adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, callow, fledgling, forward, green, hasty, ill-advised, ill-considered, immature, impulsive, juvenile, precipitate,
after a fashion - appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, comparatively, detectably, fairly, in a manner, in a way, in part,
lengthwise - along, at full length, at length, endways, evenly, flat, flatly, flush, horizontally, in length, lengthways, level, longitudinally, longways, longwise,
lapse into - alter, become, evolve, fall into, merge, ripen, run into, turn into, turn to ,
like so - precisely, similarly, so, thus ,
sell one on - assure, bring home to, bring round, captivate, charm, con, convert, convict, convince, gain, hook, persuade, prevail upon, satisfy, sell,
sex - Eros, Platonic love, act of love, admiration, adoration, adultery, affection, agape, amorous, ardency, ardour, ass, attachment, balling, bodily love,
lifeblood - Rh factor, animating force, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor centre, blood group,
castrated - asexual, bad, butchered, cold, crippled, cut short, debilitated, devitalized, disabled, docked, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, frigid, frustrated,
directive - actuating, admonitory, advisory, aimed, animating, causal, causative, cautionary, chief, commanding, communication, compelling, consultative, controlling, decree,
after a fashion - appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, comparatively, detectably, fairly, in a manner, in a way, in part,
lengthwise - along, at full length, at length, endways, evenly, flat, flatly, flush, horizontally, in length, lengthways, level, longitudinally, longways, longwise,
lapse into - alter, become, evolve, fall into, merge, ripen, run into, turn into, turn to ,
like so - precisely, similarly, so, thus ,
sell one on - assure, bring home to, bring round, captivate, charm, con, convert, convict, convince, gain, hook, persuade, prevail upon, satisfy, sell,
sex - Eros, Platonic love, act of love, admiration, adoration, adultery, affection, agape, amorous, ardency, ardour, ass, attachment, balling, bodily love,
lifeblood - Rh factor, animating force, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor centre, blood group,
castrated - asexual, bad, butchered, cold, crippled, cut short, debilitated, devitalized, disabled, docked, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, frigid, frustrated,
directive - actuating, admonitory, advisory, aimed, animating, causal, causative, cautionary, chief, commanding, communication, compelling, consultative, controlling, decree,